22-1-62 STIRLING MOSS, winner of the Lady Wigram Trophy Race. Moss's Gamble Paid And Skill Won Trophy BY raking a dorist Stice and da, ving on aile 2, stre h.R.C. Walker racing motorist Stirling Moss, driving the 2.5-litre R.R.C. Walker Lotus, won the eighth international Lady Wigram Trophy in what appeared to be effortless fashion on Saturday afternoon. Moss set a new гасе re- down the Australian and ther cord of 96min 38. sec for Retired the Scotsman, to retire soon afterwards. who was forced the 150-mile : classic. That was 4min 3.3sec inside the The Hamilton youngster Jim which was Palmer went out with a broken Brabham Ahead established previous recor jack Brab by top gear selector in his 1.5 litre Lotus after 25 laps. ham with a 2.5 litre Cooper- had covered Climax in 1960, and it re Gearbox trouble, too, caused more laps before presented an average speed the retirement of Brabhama was able to get by Lotus driver Hamilton, former of fractionally more than motor-cycle champion Ross Greenville Jap That was the control tower bend and the 93 miles an hour. his thirty-sixth Flockhart, the Scottish Australian slipped by. ariver, was running in seventh Brabham Lap Record 2.5 litre Lotus peared to be bridging the Moss in the late stages of a broken universal joint after the race, but the australan was A new lap record of 1mini 42 laps. by lack of oil and bad 20.1sec for the 2.116-mile! nurse his Cooper to keep circuit—0.7sec better than Led from Start the previous one also set Saloon Car Race by Brabham in 1960~was Moss took the lead from the also established during the start and cleared away from The final event on the pro race. Brabham and Surtees gramme was a 21-mile al- This record was a case of swapped positions on at least comers saloon car race. shared honours. two occasions during the race. The well-known Christchurch The blue Walker Lotus down power compared driver Ray Archibald demon- Driving 2. - Litre with the Coopers of the other! strated that he has lost none Cooper-Climaxes, Brab- overseas Moss of his skill by asserting his nam and John Surtees, made up for this deficiency by authority with his 3.8 litre Jag. his own skill and a gamble that: uar and coming home a good who finished second and came off. winner from the Pukerone drithird Iespectively, set To obtain better adhesion on G. B. Miles, who raced an it in their forty-third circuit he exceptionally fast Mini-Austin. lap. tae typeer her wear third place was Blockhart more quickly than normal road- in a Mini-Cooper. Five later, when racing tyres and Moss just got Moss was being pressed to through the race on them. The rear tyres bad no tread at the some extent, he equalled end, and the front ones were not much better. the igure. This is the first occasion in the history of the race Race Pattern that the lap record has been shared. Fourth man home was New Zealand's premier racing motor- race pattern ist Bruce McLaren, and fifth drivers. With Moss well was Roy Salvador. Both drivers in the lead. Brabham and Surused 2.7 litre Cooper-Climaxes. The first flve place-getters attended were the only ones to complete earlier stages. the full seventy-one laps. for hort pered in he been Next in line was Hastings driver Angus Hyslop. He was the Australian two laps back when Moss pasted before thanad crossed the Line, but earned the honour of being the first New Zealander to finish as McLaren McLaren drifted a is regarded as an international driver. Hyslop drove a 2.5 litre? ahead of Salvadori. Cooper-Climax. Glass Seventh The Australian Arnold Glass completed sixty-seven laps in his B.R.M. to finish seventh, and eighth was Aucklander Johnnie Mansel with a 2.7 litre Cooperentin line Next were all New Zealanders, Chris Amon (250F Maserati), T. Shelly (1960 c.c. Cooper), and Pat Hoare 3-litre Ferrari). There. were eighteen starters and fourteen were still running at the end of the race. Italian Lorenzo Bandini retired after eleven laps when In sixth place. The cause was a broken oil pipe in his Cooper- Maserati. For the Spor isman ANGUS HYSLOP (Hastings) in his 2.5 litre Cooper during the Jady Wigram Trophy race on Saturday afternoon. Hyslop finished sixth, completing sixty-nine laps.